Had they been left out, the Affair storyline could have been further developed, the tension would have had more time to build up and I would have liked more meat for how they got caught and how it all ends, I would have liked to know if they ended up together in the end and does it work out and how does that impact the family etc etc … Really, I think I wanted a totally different book! As it was, the husband gets involved in some shady dealings that eventually blow up in his face and that sucked all the energy out of the Affair storyline. Stuffing the book with what were in my opinion superfluous storylines, took time away from the good ones. The heart of the story: “A woman with writer’s block secretly uses her best friend’s extra marital affair as fodder for a new blockbuster novel”, was a good one… why did the rest of the book need to be cluttered up with other storylines? OK, the husband’s storyline was not so bad, and it did relate back to the wife who was cheating on him, but I would have left out all the kid’s stuff and the “we live in such a gossipy town” parts… although then the book could not have been called “The Rumor”, I guess it could have been called “The Affair”.
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